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dim-lit en · ADJ

Etymology

From dim + lit.

Meanings

1. Dimly illuminated.
   • Collin stepped through the doorway and into the dim-lit room. 2015, R.M. Houchin, A Desert Kill:
   • I felt immediately that oneness between the Offerant and those toughs that clustered round him in the dim-lit byre—a thing I had never felt remotely as a Protestant at the Office of Holy Communion in spite of the insistence of Protestant theology on the 'priesthood of the laity'. 2016, W. David Soud, Divine Cartographies:
   • The distance down a dim-lit, dark dusty road was too far for the eye to see, not for the fainthearted to aloft on foot. 2014, B. G. Simpson, Bailey’s Road:

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